Word: faithfully
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Carter claimed a diplomatic breakthrough, reporting that North Korea would allow international inspectors to remain at the main nuclear installation in Yongbyon while "good-faith efforts" toward a settlement were resumed with the U.S. As the television cameras rolled, Carter told Kim the U.S. would suspend its effort to impose economic sanctions on North Korea...
...international effort to bolster the dollar failed resoundingly today -- the currency rose slightly, then fell back. President Clinton was clearly frustrated by the greenback's predicament, pointing to a robust American economy that should increase the traders' faith in the dollar. Wall Street responded by running for cover: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 62 points...
...final months of life in his 1979 fact-based novel The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shot in the Heart is a more personal story, as Mikal Gilmore searches for insight into the origin of evil by examining his family -- his mother's shattered Mormon faith, his father's secret criminal past. Both Gilmore parents, haunted by their past, took their frustrations out on their children, dooming them to lives of anger and abuse as well. Mikal quotes Gary as saying, "My father was the first person I ever wanted to murder...
Elke Baca, 28, a former welfare mother in Denver who now works as a telephone installer, doubts the cap would make much difference. "They're not having babies for the money in the first place," she says. She has more faith in the work requirements: "Give them a limit, then cut them off. That's what I'd do. That ought to be enough motivation...
Sanctions are a fashion, rising or falling like hemlines, depending on who's running things in Washington. Bill Clinton's reflexive faith in their efficacy is hardly surprising, since he is the No. 1 proponent of the post-cold war's leading fallacy: economic might counts far more than military clout. The quintessential domestic President, Clinton sees everyone as he sees Americans: as bourgeois consumers whose behavior is driven by economic concerns. The idea that bad guys are interested only in raw power, and dissuaded only by countervailing power, seems lost on him. At this rate, Clinton may soon echo...